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Ronan missed his car. It used to be so easy to stomp his way out of Monmouth and get into the BMW and take off. He could find a drag race somewhere outside of town and take the money of every single child that showed up and then come back with Gansey none the wiser.

Gansey had always known though. But, that wasn't really possible here. The room was too small to stay in so Ronan had reluctantly come down to the common room to see what was going on. He flipped on the television but didn't pay any attention to it.

Nope, he was there to see what he could find for Chainsaw, the black raven that was currently sitting on his shoulder. Chainsaw seemed to be taken with new surroundings but not enough to fly away.

"What do you want?" Ronan asked in a voice that was a lot softer than the one he usually used. "Hungry?"

Chainsaw squawked, "Kerah," which was her name for Ronan and flapped her fingers.

"Okay, let's find something."

The kitchen seemed to be decently stocked so he'd just steal something for the both of them.

[Open place, open post.]

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After her entire two classes (seriously, since when did that count as a full day of high school?), Amy was ready for some of the free food Mara had told her about.

"Hi, do you mind if I-- bird."

There was a bird in that guy's shoulder. Did that guy know there was a bird on his shoulder?

Chainsaw flapped her wings at the newcomer and squawked loudly a few times. Food was forgotten for the moment, apparently.

Ronan glanced back over his shoulder. "Superb observation, there. Mensa must be knocking down your door."

"Actually, they already offered me membership for knowing better than to hang out with wild birds," Amy quipped back. Well, it was sort of a quip. "Or is that your pet?"

"Say that any louder, she might try and peck you."

So yes, she was a pet. She was just a picky, peculiar pet.

"She's tame. And clean. You won't get whatever latest exotic disease is in the news from her."

"Good to know," Amy said, though she was going to eye Chainsaw suspiciously anyway. It wasn't every day she saw a raven indoors. Or anywhere, in any setting.

As she inched toward the kitchen facilities, she said, "I'm Amy. I guess cats and dogs are out of style where you come from?"

"They're boring," he said bluntly. He picked up some bread and held it out for Chainsaw who took it with a quick snap of her beak. "I don't want something that cuddles and makes a lot of noise."

Chainsaw squawked as if to prove she was plenty noisy. Ronan gave her a look.

"I'm not from any weird planet or dimension or anything else this place says is normal. I'm from Virginia."

The new semester always brought out a little extra socialness in Raven. That combined with having the day off meant she'd decided to bring her book out to the common room to read in, instead of hiding out in her room.

"Ooo, nice bird," she said, wiggling her fingers in greeting at Chainsaw.

Admittedly, she was probably a bit biased.

"All this attention's going to spoil her," Ronan said dryly. Chainsaw waved her wings at the wiggling, giving a high pitched squeak of approval. "She'll let it go to her head."

"I don't know, I think a pretty lady deserves some extra attention now and then." Raven plopped down in one of the chairs. "You're one of the new students, right? I'm Raven."

"I'm from Texas," Amy offered as she opened a cabinet. "2015, since that's apparently something I need to specify."

Weird.

"So are you new too?"

"Ronan. Chainsaw's the bird," he said absently, watching Chainsaw squeak a bit at hearing she was pretty. Ronan was pretty sure she understood everything everyone said. "Yeah, I'm new. How can you tell?"

Because he didn't want to look new.

"Unfortunately," he answered, shaking his head. "New and shiny isn't my favorite thing to be. Chainsaw's fine with it, though. Means she gets attention."

Chainsaw squawked before Ronan rolled his eyes at her and gave her some more bread.

"Texas? Long way from home."

"The school's not that big," Raven said. "And I haven't seen or heard about a guy with a raven hanging out on in the third floor common room. Though I suppose you could just be taking your transformed roommate for a walk or something."

"Transformed roommate?" he repeated dubiously. "Let me guess, this is one of those things that girl who says she's been assigned to help me tried to lecture me about."

Alana hadn't tried to lecture at all.

"I think the more accepted term is 'warn'," Raven said. "Sometimes people randomly turn into animals. It hasn't happened to me at all," her transformations were anything but random, "but you hear about it on the radio every now and again."

Ronan peered at her in an attempt to figure out if she was putting him on. Didn't seem like it but still. Ronan wasn't really going to believe it till he saw it. And he hoped he didn't see it.

"Why's that happen?" he asked her. "Transformations."

Raven shrugged. "No idea. I think that's part of what makes them 'random'."

"This place is an acid trip." Kavinsky would love it. He was quiet for a few seconds. He thought about just falling into silence but decided against it. Without Gansey or Parrish or even Noah, he'd end up talking to Chainsaw if he ignored everyone. And that just seemed a little too crazy. "You been here long? Seems like a place people would get tired of after a week."

It was small and full of stairs and surrounded by nothing but water.

"About a year and a half," Raven said. "I like it. People are so used to things being weird that the only funny looks you get are from the new kids."

Rapunzel bounced into the common room in search of food, still sort of riding a high from her rappelling trick earlier, with Pascal tucked on her shoulder.

"Oh, what a pretty bird!" she exclaimed, forgetting the 'hello' she'd started to say. Pascal, for his part, made a whirring sort of noise and immediately began to fade to tones of pink and blonde to blend in with her shoulder, lest the bird see him.

"Speaking from experience when it comes to weird looks?" he had to wonder based on her phrasing there. Chainsaw hopped off Ronan's shoulder and started walking around on the counter.

Raven nodded. "I'm a shapeshifter," she said -- and she was not yet over how weird and amazing it was to just say that all casual like that. "Back home, that kind of thing makes people run away screaming. Around here the worst I've gotten is the occasional wide-eyed stare."

Ronan was pretty sure Chainsaw had never gotten this much attention. People back home didn't really care about Chainsaw one way or another. She was Ronan's bird and that was out that.

"People act like they've never seen a raven before," he said mildly, sparing a glance Rapunzel's way. "I'm sure she appreciates it."

He, on the other hand, was a little weirded out by it.

"Shapeshifter." Well, there was no wide eyed stare but he did sound a bit incredulous. "Seriously?"

What kind of island had Gansey punted him to?

"I don't know if I have," Rapunzel admitted, shrugging a shoulder shyly. "At least, not outside of a book, before. Most people I know don't walk around with birds on their shoulders."

She paused, giggling a little as she felt Pascal actively burrowing into her hair. "Um, what does she eat? 'Cause, um, I have a pet chameleon who's hiding from her right now."

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